Overview Quebec City's Fine Arts Museum is located in Battlefields Park, better known as the famous Plains of Abraham, in the new part of town. It is composed of three buildings each representing a different style and time period. Until 1991, the original neo classical Gérard-Morisset building served as the museum.
In 1991, a neighboring abandoned prison was added to the museum. Accompanied by an actor playing a prison guard, visitors can explore life in the Quebec City prison, which housed dangerous criminals, and those sentenced to death. The former prison contains four exhibition galleries. The watchtower gallery houses a David Moore piece that skillfully integrates art with this architecture.
From April 24 to October 12, 2008 a temporary exhibition, "Intrus/Intruders", the first large-scale project of its kind in Canada, will add recent works by 25 Québec artists to the Museum's permanent collections: Figurative and Abstract Art in Québec, 1940-1960, Riopelle, Tradition and Modernism in Québec and Québec City, The Art of Colonial Capital."
Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec
Parc des Champs-de-Bataille
Quebec City (Québec) G1R 5H3
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Telephone: 1.866 220.2150